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was really busy with work all week and only watererd them at night a couple times and now im checking them out and damn, they are too big and are falling over..i wont be able to do anything about this until tomorrow....is it too late for them? can they still be saved?
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Tomato cage.

That's what I have set up for mine.

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SpinKirby posted...

Tomato cage.

That's what I have set up for mine.

Have to keep them tomatoes from running away!

But yeah, that's your best option I think, tc.
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SpinKirby posted...

Tomato cage.

That's what I have set up for mine.

set them free!
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Free the Toes!
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This is mine.
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its like a Fallout settlment
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SpinKirby posted...

This is mine.

shouldn't you rake out the pine needles? i thought pine trees dropped needles to acidify the soil and discourage growth of competing plants around them.
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Kombucha posted...

shouldn't you rake out the pine needles? i thought pine trees dropped needles to acidify the soil and discourage growth of competing plants around them.

Tomatoes prefer slightly acidic soil, but that's not the point.

This plant actually randomly sprouted here, and I decided to grow + fertilize it instead of pulling it out.
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SpinKirby posted...

Kombucha posted...

shouldn't you rake out the pine needles? i thought pine trees dropped needles to acidify the soil and discourage growth of competing plants around them.

Tomatoes prefer slightly acidic soil, but that's not the point.

This plant actually randomly sprouted here, and I decided to grow + fertilize it instead of pulling it out.

oh nice
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SpinKirby posted...

Kombucha posted...

shouldn't you rake out the pine needles? i thought pine trees dropped needles to acidify the soil and discourage growth of competing plants around them.

Tomatoes prefer slightly acidic soil, but that's not the point.

This plant actually randomly sprouted here, and I decided to grow + fertilize it instead of pulling it out.

so should i be pissing in the soil more often or what lol
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Roxborough4Ever posted...

SpinKirby posted...

Kombucha posted...

shouldn't you rake out the pine needles? i thought pine trees dropped needles to acidify the soil and discourage growth of competing plants around them.

Tomatoes prefer slightly acidic soil, but that's not the point.

This plant actually randomly sprouted here, and I decided to grow + fertilize it instead of pulling it out.

so should i be pissing in the soil more often or what lol

You'd have to dilute your piss first, but it actually could work.
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I wish I had did a garden this year. Usually Im like "ugh" to the yardwork but lately Ive been looking for yardwork
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SpinKirby posted...

This is mine.

Usually when they are growing that tall and flowering but not producing much fruit, the plant isn't getting enough sunlight. Is that a low light area of your yard? Or is it getting direct sunlight for 5-6 hours a day?
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MabusIncarnate posted...

Usually when they are growing that tall and flowering but not producing much fruit, the plant isn't getting enough sunlight. Is that a low light area of your yard? Or is it getting direct sunlight for 5-6 hours a day?

It gets 5 hours of direct, but honestly it's still a bad position in general.
I've also had to chop off two branches that were growing into the wrong place.
Other than that, I've been harvesting like 3 tomatoes a week.
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Ive also been hand pollinating using a toothbrush, if anyone is wondering
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I have a tomato plant and a jalepeno plant. The jalepeno plant is thriving and even has some small peppers starting to sprout. The tomato plant is fucking struggling though. It's half the size of the jalepeno plant and looks all withered and shit. They were the same size when we bought them. I don't know what I'm doing wrong.
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Post a picture! Ive grown almost a thousand tomato plants and I've worked with many tomato diseases in a lab setting
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Trellis man, I had a plant get over 6 feet tall last year. I had an awesome tomato garden last year; 4 bushes, but I got hit with a blight in August. It took out my plants. See the next three pics; around mid July last year.

https://imgur.com/TRmO5GO
https://imgur.com/Jhnb35q
https://imgur.com/f4tSMAs

I planed Sungold Cherries (Hybrid; got over 6 feet tall)
Golden Jubilee (Hybrid; low acid, yellow)
Brandywine (Heirloom; giant red/pink)
West Virginia 63 (Heirloom; red slicing tomato, developed at West Virginia University)
I also had Lemond Drop, North Start, Purple Hungarian, and Big Bertha Peppers planted; Peppers did not get hit with the blight.

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This year, I only have two plants in the back planter. A tree got cut down, and the tree people put the wood in the planter, and never came to pick them up. So, I had very little space. Only two plants back there now, Portuguese Peppers and Golden Jubilee matos. I did the rest of my stuff on the veranda. Pic below.

https://imgur.com/b5nhbZS

WV 63 plant
Brandywine Plant
Colossus Green Pepper plant

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I grew plants this year from seeds I kept last year. I had around 16 small tomato plants, but they did not survive the transfer to the outside. I started all the plants you see in my pics at around 6 inches high.
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Did you ever try any dwarf tomatoes, furb?
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usually for tomatoes you need some support structure for them to keep them up.

or do what i do and plant them really close together so they use each other for support lol.
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@SpinKirby

What killed my tomatoes last year? My plants were massive and doing great into mid-july, see my pics above.

However, I started noticing some of the lower limbs turn yellow around the same time. I figured it was lack of sunlight and I started to slow clip them off. Early September, you can see what happened. I had plants full of tomatoes that stopped maturing and dying. It did not impact my peppers.

We had a super wet July last year, and I wonder if that somehow got a fungal growth started.

https://imgur.com/n61czGo
https://imgur.com/LQjbdLJ

I did not use any chemicals or pesticides on my stuff.
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The better you support the plants, the more effort the plant can put into growing fruit instead of growing stems to support itself.
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SpinKirby posted...

Did you ever try any dwarf tomatoes, furb?

Cherries are the smallest I've done.

I'm not familiar with dwarfs
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furb posted...

SpinKirby posted...

Did you ever try any dwarf tomatoes, furb?

Cherries are the smallest I've done.

I'm not familiar with dwarfs

I guess theyre useful if you have no space, but the taste is ehhhh

The cherries I'm growing are very sweet though. :^)
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You have to stake that shit, I stake and use cages.
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this is now the CE gardening thread?
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I just had stupid dyslexia because I was scrolling fast and i had to come back to reread the title

At first I thought it said "my tornado pants are spilling over"
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All I do is put a stick in it and then tie it to the stick
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@SpinKirby

Is it feasible to grow tomacco
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slimfizzle2 posted...

@SpinKirby

Is it feasible to grow tomacco

You could easily gmo that, if you wanted.

They're related enough...i think you could actually graft the plants together, which is sort of a tomacco.
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